SDR

Transfer simple data easily using SECS

SDR is a 32-bit SECS driver for implementing SECS-I and SECS-II communications on equipment or factory control systems running Windows or Linux.

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Products & services / OEM products & services / Equipment connectivity / SDR

32-bit SECS Driver

The industry’s most popular SECS driver provides the easiest and most reliable way to implement the SEMI equipment communication standard (SECS) messaging into your equipment or factory control system.

By using SDR™ for your connectivity solution, you will shorten your development schedules and reduce your risk: SDR handles the details of your SECS communication so you can concentrate on your applications. Take advantage of SDR’s standard, off-the-shelf components and you will also ensure your SECS connectivity solution remains dependable and easy to maintain.

SDR capability chart
SEMI Capability Operating System Integration Interface
SECS-I SECS-II SECS/GEM GEM300 EDA / Interface A Windows Linux Solaris
  C

SEMI compliant

SDR provides a SECS interface and complies fully with current releases of SEMI E4 (SECS-I),  SEMI E5 (SECS-II) and  SEMI E37 (HSMS), making it easy to send and receive simple data (e.g., small variables and single messages) using SECS.

SDR runs on Windows and Linux operating systems, and is Red Hat-certified.

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Adopt a higher-performance SECS driver for your Big Data

As your processing requirements become more complex, the amount of data moving through the SECS channel between equipment and factory host systems grows, so your connectivity solution needs to support increasing throughput and data requirements. If you need to move complex Big Data or if your solutions need the additional memory that a 64-bit architecture enables, you can take advantage of our higher-performance SECS driver, SDRPlus™.

Learn more about SDR

Product releases

Latest release

Version: 5.26 | Release Date: July 30, 2026

What's new

Overview

  • E5-0725

Supported technologies

  • Visual Studio 2026
  • Windows Server 2025 LTSC

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Previous releases

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Supported SEMI Standards

SDR supports the following SEMI Standards

Supported technologies

SDR supports the following technologies
Operating system Development environment
  • Windows 11 Enterprise 2024
  • Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
  • Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021
  • Windows Server 2025 LTSC
  • Windows Server 2022 LTSC
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9*
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8*
  • Visual Studio 2026 (VC++ 18)
  • Visual Studio 2022 (VC++ 17)
  • Visual Studio 2019 (VC++ 16)
  • Visual Studio 2017 (VC++ 15)
  • Visual Studio 2015 (VC++ 14)
  • GCC 11.4
  • GCC 8.2

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Platform, and Desktop with Workstation options are supported.

Click here to view previous technology support changes.

Training options

Remote or in-person training

SDR Developer Training. Learn about SECS communications and how to implement using SDR.

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